Here is an example of a period ad for a Tudor Revival
house....

..and here is what was built
in Ridgewood...

Georgian
Revival

Georgian Revival is
characterized by symmetry of floor plan and facade, gable or gambrel roof,
central chimney, lights (panes) in or above the door, door flanked by pilasters
or columns and capped by a decorative crown, often offset by a porch, and six
pane to twelve pane double hung windows

Here is a period ad for a
Georgian style home....

...and an example of a
Georgian style house in Ridgewood

French Revival

A popular style, French
Revival was characterized by narrow door and window openings, paired casement
windows, exterior shutters, paired French doors, steeply pitched hipped or gable
roof and half timber framing with a stucco covering. Here is one of Ridgewood's
French Revival houses.

Spanish
style homes

Inspired by styles as
different as simple adobe houses to the Baroque missions of the U.S. Southwest,
this style is characterized by structures with flat or low pitched roofs, stucco
covered stone or brick walls, multiple doors, and sometimes verandas as well as
courtyards. What a treat to have a few in our neighborhood!

Foursquare
Styles

You could order a Foursquare
house from your local building supply- and some former residents of Ridgewood
must have done that! Look at this ad, then the photo of one of the neighborhood
houses. The supplies arrived at the building site ready to assemble. Custom
touches were at your discretion.

The ad....., which included a
picture of the house and a floor plan....

And the house in the
neighborhood...

Cottage Styles

It's hard not to love the
quaintness of cottage style, and Ridgewood has a number that are wood-sided or
brick faced.

We also have one Victorian Painted Lady
that was the old farmhouse on the land that predated the Ridgewood Allotment.
You can see that in our history pages!

You really should take a drive and
see all our styles from the painted lady to "Tudorbethan" cottages to
foursquares and 1950's bungalows and of course some of the larger stately
houses...too many houses to show you here. But more than houses on display,
Ridgewood is part of the City of Canton where 300 families occupy buildings they
call homes!!!